There will be plenty more of these “quad-core” announcements today I’m sure, but Velocity Micro is one of my favorite desktop vendors for both gaming PCs and workstations. The boutique system builder (though you can now find its handy work in Best Buy stores) is all-in with Intel’s new very, very fast processors. For example, there’s the Velocity Raptor Signature Edition Gaming PC, fully loaded with the QX6700 processor and two, 768MB eVGA nVidia GeForce 8800GTX graphics cards, available today at a respectably high price of $7,395.

Velocity Micro Pushes the Performance Envelope with New Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core Processor Machines [press release]